myCADtools Utilities User Guide

Variables SOLIDWORKS

By a simple Drag and drop one deposits the icon ''Variables SOLIDWORKS'' with the site desired in the column ''Properties“. Or '' Double to click” on the icon ''Variables SOLIDWORKS''.

This kind of property makes it possible to recover in a field the variables SOLIDWORKS of the station.

One finds, in the ''Variables SOLIDWORKS'', a pull-down menu with all the variables SOLIDWORKS. The evaluated value is directly recovered (Mass, Density, Volume…) and to calculate by SmartProperties such as the configuration, the active configuration, name of the article of welded part…

Here the result of posting in SOLIDWORKS.

One finds in this list of the evaluated variables of SOLIDWORKS such as the mass, the material, density…, but also of the properties such as:

- Name of the document: turn over the name of the document

- Name of the active configuration: turn over the name of the active configuration of the document

- Name of the configuration: turn over the name of the configuration to which one applies the property

- Parent document name: in the case of a selection of a part in the context of an assembly

- Creation date: turn over the creation date of the document

- Folder: turn over the name of the folder in which the document is recorded

- SOLIDWORKS version: turn over the number of version of SOLIDWORKS in which the document is recorded (ex: SOLIDWORKS 2017)

- Path: turn over the complete path of the document of the folder in which the document is recorded